Thread by @JRubinBlogger

defeated pseudo-authoritarians do not go quietly. Indeed they speak a common language of “fraud,” “betrayal” and existential peril. Who called it the “fraud of the century” and inveighed against the left who would seize power — Netanyahu or Donald Trump?
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

“If you want to know why we have to change the leadership in Israel, go and listen to Netanyahu’s speech. It was a dangerous and unhinged speech by someone who has no limits anymore,” Lapid warned.

anti-democratic nationalists are shameless in their procedural maneuvers

Democrats need to understand what they are up against. Manchin declared himself “disappointed” and “very frustrated that politics has trumped — literally and figuratively — the good of the country.” Rs are “unconscionable.” But what is he prepared to do about it?

Neither truth nor procedural niceties matter. That in turn requires defenders of democracy to put aside policy differences, rally to the cause of democracy and not be deterred by political obstacles that their opponents would willingly cast aside to preserve power.